Albino Dragons are so named because their translucent, scale-less skin lacks all pigment. Instead, to help protect their bodies from the sun, they are coated in an oily secretion that blocks the sun’s harmful rays. The call of an albino dragon is similar to a barn owl--a shriek instead of a roar.

Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.

Al is a more or less crazy dragon. He's completely obsessed with the number two, so much so that he refuses to use more than two digits or have anything in his hoard that doesn't come in pairs of two. So his hoard consists of lovely pairs of earrings or matching bracelets but also of shoes, mittens, glasses, trousers or anything else he can get his claws on.

The other dragons calling him Dorkface gets a completely different connotation than in most cases.